Africa, Empire and Fleet Street: Albert Cartwright and West Africa Magazine Format:Hardcover Pages: 136

Pages: 136

But instead of finding him

and utterly believable

solidarity

Author: Carol Jacobs

Africa, Empire and Fleet Street: Albert Cartwright and West Africa Magazine Format:Hardcover Pages: 136For decades before and after African independence, the London weekly West Africa was a well known source of news, analysis and comment on the region, especially the (former) British territories. Jonathan Derrick, who worked on the magazine's staff in the 1960s and again in its final years before closure in 2003, here studies the earlier history of West Africa through the story of its largely forgotten editor, Albert Cartwright, from the magazine's